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roscoe36
04-16-2007, 06:52 PM
NHL.com - The Stanley Cup (http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=280116)

Great read.
Detroit goalie Tim Cheveldae was another who employed outlandish threads to pull his team together. The heavily favored Red Wings trailed the Minnesota North Stars 3-1 in the opening round of the 1992 playoffs when Cheveldae showed up at the rink wearing a garish mustard-colored sport coat which in the past had resulted in much abuse being heaped on his fashion sense.

It worked, and when Cheveldae posted a shutout in Game 5, he donned the coat for Game 6, hanging up another zero. A 5-2 victory in Game 7 completed a hat trick of wins for Cheveldae's haberdashery, but the mustard-colored coat couldn't cut the mustard in the second round against Chicago, where the Blackhawks posted a four-game sweep of Detroit.

mikhail1973
04-25-2007, 03:07 PM
Cheveldae was an enigma. In the 6-0 game he'd stop anything coming his way. In a one-goal game you couldn't depend on him to stop anything. The guy played so strange, he'd stop the toughest shot and then let an easy one in. Fans practically ran him out of town and he could neve resurrect his carrer anywhere else.